Introduction
Systemic consensus is a decision making process developed by Erich Visotschnig and Siegfried Schrotta - two ex-IBM system analysts from Austria - in 2001.[website] A key feature is the use of scalar, resistance voting: in contrast to the competition-promoting plurality vote where people can be dragged into outcomes they didn't want, the resistance vote promotes collaboration by selecting the outcome most people can live with.[details] Systemic consensus can occur online and offline, in short and full formats - all of which contain the same fundamental stages described below.
NB: This form of decision making is probably not what you're used to and requires practice and reprogramming of old habits.
Overview
The systemic consensus process takes a question as an input and gives a decision as an output. The framework for this process is composed of the following stages;
- The question
- The systemic consensus cycle
- Express needs, wants and values
- Form proposals
- Vote
- The decision
